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On June 1, a court in Warsaw issued a decision that allows a Polish citizen, who transitioned legally in Germany, to change her personal data (gender marker and first as well as last name) without obtaining a transsexual diagnosis and going through a civil court case in Poland.

On March 3 Trans-Fuzja’s president took part in NGOs meeting with President Andrzej Duda regarding government’s actions against the Constitutional Court. Today, we publish Trans-Fuzja's Management Board position on the matter.

The main objective of FRA is to research situation of various excluded social groups of European Union. This time the agency decided to focus on people discriminated against based on their sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression, or intersex status and the problems they encounter in (...)

A day before the pre-election silence, the Prawo i Sprawiedliwość (Law and Justice) party leader, who is said to majorly win the elections this Sunday, clearly showed again that he does not understand what trans issues are and also does not have any knowledge on gender recognition in Poland.

Today, two Parliamentary Committees, the Committee for Health and the Committee for Justice and Human Rights, which were supposed to report their position to the Parliamentary Assembly and advise either to vote down or uphold the recent presidential veto, were not able to reach an agreement before t (...)

Stanisław, Sonia and Eweryst are three among many trans persons in Poland disappointed and angry about the recent veto by President Andrzej Duda of a new gender recognition legislation. They decided to tell the world what they as Polish citizens need and require from democratically elected authorit (...)

It is with our deepest regrets to inform that yesterday President Andrzej Duda vetoed the Gender Accordance Act and denied trans people in Poland their human rights, treating them as second-class citizens.

Friday, August 7 marked the day the Polish Senate passed the gender recognition legislation, changing its na,e to “Gener Marker Change Act”. It is a great victory for trans people in Poland who were waiting too long for new regulations that will finally end the need to sue their parents in court (...)

On Thursday, July 23 lower chamber of the Polish Parliament (Sejm), passed the Gender Accordance Act, the country's first gender recognition legislation in history. Being part of a long parliamentary procedure and under constant criticism and attacks coming from conservative media, after its initial (...)

Since 2008 Trans-Fuzja Foundation has been supporting the Polish transgender community, working to change the anti-discrimination law and to change the current legal gender recognition procedures. You might have already heard about us thanks to Anna Grodzka and if not – let us welcome you to our c (...)

On November 5th, an international conference "European Standards and Good Practices in Gender Recognition" was co-organized by the Trans-Fuzja Foundation, the Polish Human Rights Defender’s Office and the Council of Europe’s LGBT Project.

Trans-Fuzja Foundation is a Polish organization established in 2008 with an aim to support trans people in Poland. Within a few years the foundation has moved from a support-only approach, to a politically engaged organization with specific goals concerning the legal, social, economical and human ri (...)

On April 21st, the „Gender under control” conference organized by Trans-Fuzja Foundation, with the support of the Heinrich Böll Foundation took place in Warsaw. The event was organized under official patronage of the Polish Human Rights Defender, prof. Irena Lipowicz.

On Saturday, October 2nd Anna Grodzka, the first openly transgender person to take part in the Polish parliamentary elections, has declared a civil lawsuit against Tomasz Terlikowski, a right-winged publicists who has, as Grodzka put it, disrespected her and thousands of Polish transgender citizens (...)

On August 5th 2011 the Office of Polish Ombudsman, prof. Irena Lipowicz, has issued a detailed inquiry to the Minister of Justice, Krzysztof Kwiatkowski, on the current procedures allowing transgender people to have their gender legally recognized.

ILGA-Europe and Transgender Europe have issued a monitoring report regarding access to goods and services (Directive 2004/113/EC) and employment and occupation (Directive 2006/54/EC). Both Trans-Fuzja in Poland and TransFúzia in Slovakia have contributed to the report.

We have started our supporting activity by organising different self-help meetings and activities, which were supposed to be a brief introduction to the transgender problem, but it has rapidly come to our attention that it is not enough.

Invited by the Torun detachment of Campaign Against Homophobia, the Trans-Fuzja mobile assault team comprised of Voca and Zzuzzu, on December 15th set out to Torun, to carry out transgender workshops there. Such workshops took place in May 2007, also by an invitation from CAH. Here is a short accoun (...)

Have you ever heard about homosexual propaganda, a subject so noticeable for the last year or two? If you live in Poland, you surely have. But then, same as we, you do not know what is it all about. One thing is certain – it is similarily unsuccesful as the rule of our previous governement. Oh, an (...)

When it comes to Poland, it’s hard to speak about a strong and consistent gay-lesbian scene, much less about any kind of transgender community. The society has very little knowledge about the very existence of such phenomena as transsexuality or transvestitism, and if someone has heard anything ab (...)

Chapter 4##With some of the guineas left from the sale of the tenth pearl on her string, Orlando bought herself a complete outfit of such clothes as women then wore, and it was in the dress of a young Englishwoman of rank that she now sat on the deck of the “Enamoured Lady”.

A happening within the framework of The Antihomophobic May Picnic####Participants: ##- Antiguy General of Poland,##- The Campaign Against Homophobia Wroclaw (KPH Wroclaw)##- Trans-Fusion##- Freelance advocates of queer movement